ALBANY -- Senator Kathy Marchione came out in strong opposition to the most restrictive gun control law in the nation and also criticized the process, during her first senate session Monday evening.

While Marchione says she supports certain parts of the gun law, such as preventing criminals and people with serious mental illnesses from owning guns and giving schools additional funding in order to boost security, she believes the law weakens the Second Amendment rights of New Yorkers.

"Law-abiding citizens are not the issue: millions of New Yorkers own firearms and do so safely, responsibly and legally. The real issue, the real threat, is criminals having guns and the seriously mentally ill obtaining access to guns. If tonight's legislation focused solely on these issues, I would have voted yes," she said. "However, along with strengthening Kendra's Law, enacting Mark's Law, providing funding to further secure our schools, and cracking down on illegal guns - all of which are good ideas I strongly support - the bill contained restrictive new gun control that could weaken the Second Amendment. That is something I will not support."

Marchione was one of two Senators who spoke out against passing the law during Monday night's debate and one of 18 senators who voted against it. 43 voted to pass it.

Marchione also took issue with the way the bill was fast-tracked through the Legislature: "I feel that it was a shame that our governor felt the need to use a message of necessity, because we talk about transparency and we talk about wanting our people within our districts to be able to give us their opinions, and to have public hearings, and to hear about the process and to make sure it's open and transparent, yet we get legislation on our desk for less than 20 minutes and we're voting on something through a message of necessity," she said.

This was the first time Marchione, who was sworn in as a state Senator only a few weeks ago, has spoken on the Senate floor and her first vote.

Marchione also encouraged gun owners and supporters of the Second Amendment to make their voices heard now.

"If every New Yorker who supports the Second Amendment makes their voices heard we can forge a true public safety remedy without curtailing the Second Amendment," she said.

Sen. Hugh Farley, whose district includes portions of southern Saratoga County, also voted against the bill.

Tuesday, the state Assembly debated the bill and, Democrat-controlled body is expected to pass it easily. However, two assemblymen who represent parts of Saratoga County -- Jim Tedisco and Tony Jordan -- spoke against the measure.

Watch Tedisco's comments on the Assembly floor:

"We're being asked to vote on legislation that would purportedly make New York a safer state but will accomplish nothing but penalizing law-abiding New Yorkers," Tedisco said in a statement.

Jordan's spokeswoman, Bernadette VanDeinse, said Jordan felt there were significant problems with the scope of the legislation and that the vote was being rushed without proper public vetting.

"We have already discovered significant errors, which will require the governor to submit Chapter Amendments to resolve the carelessly written law, such as making it illegal for law enforcement to enter school grounds with a firearm," she said in an email.